4th edition and beyond! (silliness!) [Archive] - Wizards Community

4th edition and beyond! (silliness!) [Archive] - Wizards Community

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Tinari
08-23-07, 06:24 PM I am a true role player through and thru. Thru and through?

Irregardless of that detail of minutia, I felt I should mention that each edition of D&D has helped bring the game to a more streamlined interface which would therein allow me to get more to the meat and potaters of ye olde game of yore that I know and love! But, I don't think from what I've seen and heard of the future of D&D is enough. Here is what I propose the steps we should be taking to the future of our favourite (Gotta have the obligatory U!) social interactive game.

First, there should be the more streamlined fourth edition which allows less time for talking and socializing whilst the rules are being withdrawn from our wonderful tomes.

Secondly we should expedite the release of the Fifth edition D&D, where all races and classes have set attributes and simply mesh together. Dwarves have +1 str, Fighters have +1 str, dwarven fighters have +2 str. No time wasted on rolling, we know what they're function is, hitting stuff with axes!

And beyond this, we need to get things more ingrained within the technology of our times. Begone, silly books! I demand all information be put upon the internet to be downloaded into our brains, or barring that, personal palm computers or at the minimum distributed on Blu-ray DVD format. This will bring us gamers close and close to one another to reaching a role players utopia. Less time to read books through for all the information, just search what you want and get answers on demand!

Some time we should be reaching about 10th edition D&D and I will be an age'd Role Play veteran of the times, but I won't look back, I will look only forward. By this time I fully intend to be able to interact with all my brethren by doing little more than kicking back in my Lazee-virtua-boy chair with goggles strapped to my face and a beer can in my hand. I will just think and maybe talk to fully engross myself with my friends and the role playing which I am so familiar with back in my youth!

Long live digitalization and vegitabelation! (I invented a word?:eek:)
re1oaded
08-24-07, 10:06 AM Actually wizards don't need to improve anything but their advertizing. Too many people think D&D is a nerd game and that it,s about fairies and cinderella's. Advertize. TV. Radio. Give us more players.
High Octane
08-24-07, 01:10 PM I can't tell if this post is sarcastic or not.
Alyri
08-24-07, 01:26 PM Does it really matter?
RobbyPants
08-24-07, 01:46 PM Irregardless of that detail of minutia,
Fixed :P

Secondly we should expedite the release of the Fifth edition D&D)
Don't worry. It's already in the works, they just won't officially admit it. I think the policy is once a new edition is announced (but not released), they begin designing the next one. This is why it takes soooo long for them to actually work in suggested fixes. By the time they've colleted enough user data on 3.x, they're already printing the 4E books! ;)
Alyri
08-24-07, 04:54 PM Don't worry. It's already in the works, they just won't officially admit it. I think the policy is once a new edition is announced (but not released), they begin designing the next one. This is why it takes soooo long for them to actually work in suggested fixes. By the time they've collected enough user data on 3.x, they're already printing the 4E books! ;)

Nah they already have 5-11editions already made they are just waiting. R&D doesn't even do anything beside take long vacations and play WoW.
temparus2000
08-24-07, 10:27 PM Too many people think D&D is a nerd game.

It isn't? I'm a nerd. All of my players are nerds. I'm pretty sure the vast majority of players are nerds.

Perhaps you're not. Perhaps you're a master of various martial arts, get hot dates left and right, and know little of the inner workings of computers. But I don't think that is indicitive of a typical D&D gamer.
StSteven
08-24-07, 10:37 PM It isn't? I'm a nerd. All of my players are nerds. I'm pretty sure the vast majority of players are nerds.

Perhaps you're not. Perhaps you're a master of various martial arts, get hot dates left and right, and know little of the inner workings of computers. But I don't think that is indicitive of a typical D&D gamer.

You see, that is the problem for us non-nerds. We want more players who aren't nerds either (not that there's anything wrong with that). In order for that to happen, WoTC needs to advertise better and improve the game's image. Alternately, you could just try to start dating for us. They don't bite. :D
Nox_Noctis
08-24-07, 11:24 PM Alternately, you could just try to start dating for us. They don't bite. :D

Actually, I think you should do your own dating. ;)

I consider myself somewhat nerdy, but I'm not shut up in my house 24/7 in a basement on a computer. I go the gym, hang out with friends, etc.
LoneStranger
08-25-07, 12:07 AM Actually wizards don't need to improve anything but their advertizing. Too many people think D&D is a nerd game and that it,s about fairies and cinderella's. Advertize. TV. Radio. Give us more players.

Friend of mine said once:

"Gaming is like Communism, you have to recruit."

Yes I know some interesting people.
yellowdingo
08-25-07, 12:01 PM Friend of mine said once:

"Gaming is like Communism, you have to recruit."

Yes I know some interesting people.

Actually i went out for KFC this evening and five nutters were standing in a circle facing inward-dressed as A cowboy, A chef,...it was a bad villagepeople thing...loitering on a street corner...so I think Gameing is more like looking for that new member of the band after Yoko breaks you up...

And i bet you do know interesting people...A few of my closest and dearest were members of that Social Club you mention...
zzo38
08-25-07, 08:44 PM What does "vegitabelation" mean? (If you invented it, it isn't in the dictionary. You have to tell me what it means.)

And if each edition would be more streamlined and stuff, would you want ∞ edition as well? Maybe ∞ edition is infinitely streamlined and stuff like that.

But I wouldn't know what I like better, as I haven't seen other ones very much.
Khadmus
08-25-07, 10:52 PM What does "vegitabelation" mean? (If you invented it, it isn't in the dictionary. You have to tell me what it means.)

And if each edition would be more streamlined and stuff, would you want ∞ edition as well? Maybe ∞ edition is infinitely streamlined and stuff like that.

But I wouldn't know what I like better, as I haven't seen other ones very much.

You become a vegetable. In the corpulent, fat, braindead sense; not the healthy, green, lettuce sense.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Tinari 08-23-07, 06:24 PM	I am a true role player through and thru. Thru and through? Irregardless of that detail of minutia, I felt I should mention that each edition of D&D has helped bring the game to a more streamlined interface which would therein allow me to get more to the meat and potaters of ye olde game of yore that I know and love! But, I don't think from what I've seen and heard of the future of D&D is enough. Here is what I propose the steps we should be taking to the future of our favourite (Gotta have the obligatory U!) social interactive game. First, there should be the more streamlined fourth edition which allows less time for talking and socializing whilst the rules are being withdrawn from our wonderful tomes. Secondly we should expedite the release of the Fifth edition D&D, where all races and classes have set attributes and simply mesh together. Dwarves have +1 str, Fighters have +1 str, dwarven fighters have +2 str. No time wasted on rolling, we know what they're function is, hitting stuff with axes! And beyond this, we need to get things more ingrained within the technology of our times. Begone, silly books! I demand all information be put upon the internet to be downloaded into our brains, or barring that, personal palm computers or at the minimum distributed on Blu-ray DVD format. This will bring us gamers close and close to one another to reaching a role players utopia. Less time to read books through for all the information, just search what you want and get answers on demand! Some time we should be reaching about 10th edition D&D and I will be an age'd Role Play veteran of the times, but I won't look back, I will look only forward. By this time I fully intend to be able to interact with all my brethren by doing little more than kicking back in my Lazee-virtua-boy chair with goggles strapped to my face and a beer can in my hand. I will just think and maybe talk to fully engross myself with my friends and the role playing which I am so familiar with back in my youth! Long live digitalization and vegitabelation! (I invented a word?:eek:)
re1oaded 08-24-07, 10:06 AM	Actually wizards don't need to improve anything but their advertizing. Too many people think D&D is a nerd game and that it,s about fairies and cinderella's. Advertize. TV. Radio. Give us more players.
High Octane 08-24-07, 01:10 PM	I can't tell if this post is sarcastic or not.
Alyri 08-24-07, 01:26 PM	Does it really matter?
RobbyPants 08-24-07, 01:46 PM	Irregardless of that detail of minutia, Fixed :P Secondly we should expedite the release of the Fifth edition D&D) Don't worry. It's already in the works, they just won't officially admit it. I think the policy is once a new edition is announced (but not released), they begin designing the next one. This is why it takes soooo long for them to actually work in suggested fixes. By the time they've colleted enough user data on 3.x, they're already printing the 4E books! ;)
Alyri 08-24-07, 04:54 PM	Don't worry. It's already in the works, they just won't officially admit it. I think the policy is once a new edition is announced (but not released), they begin designing the next one. This is why it takes soooo long for them to actually work in suggested fixes. By the time they've collected enough user data on 3.x, they're already printing the 4E books! ;) Nah they already have 5-11editions already made they are just waiting. R&D doesn't even do anything beside take long vacations and play WoW.
temparus2000 08-24-07, 10:27 PM	Too many people think D&D is a nerd game. It isn't? I'm a nerd. All of my players are nerds. I'm pretty sure the vast majority of players are nerds. Perhaps you're not. Perhaps you're a master of various martial arts, get hot dates left and right, and know little of the inner workings of computers. But I don't think that is indicitive of a typical D&D gamer.
StSteven 08-24-07, 10:37 PM	It isn't? I'm a nerd. All of my players are nerds. I'm pretty sure the vast majority of players are nerds. Perhaps you're not. Perhaps you're a master of various martial arts, get hot dates left and right, and know little of the inner workings of computers. But I don't think that is indicitive of a typical D&D gamer. You see, that is the problem for us non-nerds. We want more players who aren't nerds either (not that there's anything wrong with that). In order for that to happen, WoTC needs to advertise better and improve the game's image. Alternately, you could just try to start dating for us. They don't bite. :D
Nox_Noctis 08-24-07, 11:24 PM	Alternately, you could just try to start dating for us. They don't bite. :D Actually, I think you should do your own dating. ;) I consider myself somewhat nerdy, but I'm not shut up in my house 24/7 in a basement on a computer. I go the gym, hang out with friends, etc.
LoneStranger 08-25-07, 12:07 AM	Actually wizards don't need to improve anything but their advertizing. Too many people think D&D is a nerd game and that it,s about fairies and cinderella's. Advertize. TV. Radio. Give us more players. Friend of mine said once: "Gaming is like Communism, you have to recruit." Yes I know some interesting people.
yellowdingo 08-25-07, 12:01 PM	Friend of mine said once: "Gaming is like Communism, you have to recruit." Yes I know some interesting people. Actually i went out for KFC this evening and five nutters were standing in a circle facing inward-dressed as A cowboy, A chef,...it was a bad villagepeople thing...loitering on a street corner...so I think Gameing is more like looking for that new member of the band after Yoko breaks you up... And i bet you do know interesting people...A few of my closest and dearest were members of that Social Club you mention...
zzo38 08-25-07, 08:44 PM	What does "vegitabelation" mean? (If you invented it, it isn't in the dictionary. You have to tell me what it means.) And if each edition would be more streamlined and stuff, would you want ∞ edition as well? Maybe ∞ edition is infinitely streamlined and stuff like that. But I wouldn't know what I like better, as I haven't seen other ones very much.
Khadmus 08-25-07, 10:52 PM	What does "vegitabelation" mean? (If you invented it, it isn't in the dictionary. You have to tell me what it means.) And if each edition would be more streamlined and stuff, would you want ∞ edition as well? Maybe ∞ edition is infinitely streamlined and stuff like that. But I wouldn't know what I like better, as I haven't seen other ones very much. You become a vegetable. In the corpulent, fat, braindead sense; not the healthy, green, lettuce sense.